Today's Law Week special report features national and international practices.
Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty told congressional investigators he didn't learn of a plan to fire U.S. attorneys until late October and didn't know why they were targeted for removal, Senate aides said.
WASHINGTON -- The former general counsel of the World Bank says he believes bank chief Paul Wolfowitz acted "incorrectly" in helping arrange the hefty compensation package for a bank employee who was also his girlfriend.
If your company doesn't have the luxury of full-time in-house patent counsel and you are contemplating an IPO, you'll still need to conduct thorough IP due diligence. However, the work will typically be distributed among your company's various outside IP counsel, often times on a piece-meal basis.
The stories make the top of the news: Utility company overcharges customers via advanced billing policy and benefits by delaying reimbursements. Politician hides illegal contributions and bribery money. Church allocates assets to regional parishes and declares bankruptcy to avoid major legal settlement. Illegal investment scheme bilks hundreds of investors out of millions of dollars. On a smaller scale outside the press rooms and ingrained in our every day life are the legal issues of partnership and corporations, marriage dissolution with disputes over the use and whereabouts of assets, economic loss due to injury, employment fraud and resolution involving insurance claims.
FYFFE, Ala. -- Heart surgery halted Viola Sue Kell's work sewing carpets in a rug mill in 2001. It was the end of 40 years of cleaning motel rooms, restaurant jobs, "just hard stuff," says Kell, a 64-year-old widow. She applied for Social Security disability, and her monthly $827 benefit now is her only income.
WASHINGTON -- The red folders are everywhere at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Inside are patent applications, stacked on examiners' desks, pushed by the cartload along the underground hallways of the buildings, filed away by the thousands.
WASHINGTON -- Citing FBI abuses and the attorney general's troubles, senators peppered top Justice and intelligence officials Tuesday with skeptical questions about their proposal to revise the rules for spying on Americans.
When Dr. Robert Atkins took a fatal fall on a New York sidewalk in 2003, his death was accompanied by highly public controversy over the risks of his diet plan and his own personal health.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A computer stolen in early April from a company that provided benefit services to Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) contained workers' Social Security numbers and banking information, according to a letter sent to employees.
Many states are cracking down on illegal immigrants by denying them driver's licenses. But auto insurers are increasingly targeting those unlicensed drivers as a lucrative market.
Bing Ai is a patent attorney and principal with Fish & Richardson in San Diego.
DALLAS -- The Press Club of Dallas has filed a lawsuit against its former president, accusing her of rigging the club's journalism competition for at least the last two years.
NEW ORLEANS -- Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Co. has agreed to settle out of court with 34 policyholders in Mississippi who sued the insurer over damage to their homes from Hurricane Katrina, a lawyer for the policyholders said Tuesday.
NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart's (NYSE: WMT) exploitation of weak U.S. labor laws interferes with workers' rights to organize and violates the human rights of its employees, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, an independent nongovernment organization.
Fearful of litigation, supportive of students' independence and often citing privacy laws, colleges for years have zealously guarded the confidentiality of their students. But the recent massacre at Virginia Tech is raising questions about what many view as an excessive culture of privacy on U.S. campuses.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The governor has closed a loophole in state law that allowed the Virginia Tech gunman to pass a weapons background check despite having mental health issues.
Editor's note: this is the tenth part of an ongoing series.
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Angry over recent raids and frustrated with Congress, thousands of people protested across the country Tuesday to demand a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.
Ted Cranston, a partner with DLA Piper San Diego, believes that many people don't want to face the realities of life, mainly that they will some day die.
Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty told congressional investigators he didn't learn of a plan to fire U.S. attorneys until late October and didn't know why they were targeted for removal, Senate aides said.
WASHINGTON -- The former general counsel of the World Bank says he believes bank chief Paul Wolfowitz acted "incorrectly" in helping arrange the hefty compensation package for a bank employee who was also his girlfriend.
FYFFE, Ala. -- Heart surgery halted Viola Sue Kell's work sewing carpets in a rug mill in 2001. It was the end of 40 years of cleaning motel rooms, restaurant jobs, "just hard stuff," says Kell, a 64-year-old widow. She applied for Social Security disability, and her monthly $827 benefit now is her only income.
WASHINGTON -- Citing FBI abuses and the attorney general's troubles, senators peppered top Justice and intelligence officials Tuesday with skeptical questions about their proposal to revise the rules for spying on Americans.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A computer stolen in early April from a company that provided benefit services to Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) contained workers' Social Security numbers and banking information, according to a letter sent to employees.
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